# Possible to maintain a Galaxy server-specific secret key across tools and job invocations?

**URL:** <https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/possible-to-maintain-a-galaxy-server-specific-secret-key-across-tools-and-job-invocations/6234>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** development-tools, devops\
**Created:** [June 21, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/possible-to-maintain-a-galaxy-server-specific-secret-key-across-tools-and-job-invocations/6234 "2021-06-21T12:47:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![hexylena](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/help.galaxyproject.org/hexylena/32/4171_2.png) [@hexylena](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/hexylena)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 7:55am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/possible-to-maintain-a-galaxy-server-specific-secret-key-across-tools-and-job-invocations/6234/21 "2021-06-23T07:55:24Z")

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Sorry yesterday was very busy (today too)

> Actually, since `app` is available, I believe I don’t even need to get the SECRET\_KEY extracted at all. Instead

I **really** like that idea. You might need to generate several hashes, not sure what the max int is for encode\_id.

But I’d feel ok about installing that personally.

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**Author:** ![sveinugu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/help.galaxyproject.org/sveinugu/32/2482_2.png) [@sveinugu](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/sveinugu)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/possible-to-maintain-a-galaxy-server-specific-secret-key-across-tools-and-job-invocations/6234/22 "2021-06-23T14:30:06Z")

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> [@hexylena](#):
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> Sorry yesterday was very busy (today too)

@hexylena Unsurprisingly so! Thanks a lot for taking time in your obviously busy schedule.

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